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A level English Literature at Boston Spa Academy

Course description

The course is split into three modules which cover poetry, prose and plays from across the centuries. You will look in detail at the way that writers communicate their ideas; how their work is shaped by the social, historical and literary context of their
times and how people have responded to famous works of literature, both now and in the past. AQA English Literature A's approach works from the belief that no text exists in isolation but is the product of the time in which it ws produced and so students
are encouraged to explore the relationships that exist between texts and the contexts in which they are written, received abd undertood. Students are also encouraged to debate and challenge the interpretations of other readers as they develop their own informed
personal response to texts.

Course content

Unit 1 - Love through the Ages: Exploration of this central literary theme of love in texts over time. This will involve study of a play, poetry and prose.

Unit 2 - Texts in shared contexts; Modern Times; Literature from 1945 - present day. Here texts will be explored within a narrower and clearly defined time period - Taking the end of WW2 as its historical starting point. Literature's engagement with some
of the social, politixal, personal and literary issues, which have helped shape the latter half of the 20th century and the early decades of the 21st century will be explored.